]]>Comment on Vasyl Lomachenko vs Guillermo Rigondeaux~Four Gold Olympic Medals by roberto00https://roberto00.wordpress.com/2017/12/08/vasyl-lomachenko-vs-guillermo-rigondeauxfour-gold-olympic-medals/#comment-1816
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 01:08:13 +0000http://roberto00.wordpress.com/?p=9709#comment-1816— Congrats Ricky on being one of the few left in the sport of boxing able to utter a comment. Boxing fans are older and dropping like flies. If you and boxing continue this decline, well, best not to take the tempting investment deals on offered futures of boxing.

]]>Comment on Anthony Josua vs Kubrat Pulev AKA Carlos Takam by roberto00https://roberto00.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/anthony-josua-vs-kubrat-pulev-aka-carlos-takam/#comment-1809
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:12:11 +0000http://roberto00.wordpress.com/?p=9887#comment-1809— There is hope in the welter division now that Crawford is mandatory in the WBO, the fly in the ointment that of being a Arum fighter. Arum does keep his fighters busy against the best he can round up, but it will be at least a couple of years if ever before he faces Spence or Thurman.

I wish I knew more about the Charlos to comment, but it’s hard to invest any precious time in them when their parents deliberately made it damn near impossible to keep their names straight.

]]>Comment on Anthony Josua vs Kubrat Pulev AKA Carlos Takam by GentlemanJeffhttps://roberto00.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/anthony-josua-vs-kubrat-pulev-aka-carlos-takam/#comment-1808
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:35:56 +0000http://roberto00.wordpress.com/?p=9887#comment-1808I’m bitter about the lack of competition at heavyweight, too, but I think you could say the same about other divisions. Even as deep as the talent goes at middleweight, you can’t really say there’s a standout, or even a pair of figthers who consistently provide exciting fights. Most people disagree, but I’ve rewatched Golovkin-Alvarez and it wasn’t anywhere near a great fight, much less an epic battle. Both guys played it safe. Just because they stand in one place and throw a haymaker every 5-10 rounds it doesn’t make them Pacquiao, Gatti, or Wepner. Both of them professed to be coming for the knockout, and neither really tried past the opening rounds. At least Wilder and Joshua go for broke (which, 20 years ago, all boxers were expected to do). I think when they do make that fight, which could be years down the road, it’ll be more competitive than you seem to think.

Look at Junior Middle. Miguel Cotto? He’s done. Jarett Hurd? Never hurd of him. And Erislandy Lara, please, can somebody get him off primetime broadcasts? Just like Heavy, there’s only one real outstanding guy with an excellent record, and that’s Charlo, who is head and shoulders above every other guy with a belt in the division.

What about Welter, you say? Deep division, for sure, lots of talent. Yet, who holds belts? Thurman and Spence. Admittedly, they’re both extremely talented and, maybe more importantly, entertaining. BUT: both of them combined have fought only a handful of guys with real skill. Spence is taking on Lamont Peterson next, and if you’ve seen his recent fights, you know that’s just pointless. And by the way, who’s the last “champ” at welter? Jeff Horn. That’s all you gotta say. He’s a champion in arguably the most competitive division in the sport.

Hopefully, the cruiser tournament can add some spark to that division the way the Super Six did for the middles. Other than that, you just gotta spread your viewership around different divisions if you wanna catch a good fight. Not good, but it could be worse.

]]>Comment on Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward~Oh, Dear, That Time Of The Month Again? by roberto00https://roberto00.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/sergey-kovalev-vs-andre-wardoh-dear-that-time-of-the-month-again/#comment-1728
Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:27:06 +0000http://roberto00.wordpress.com/?p=9464#comment-1728— Ward is only an elite boxer against fringe contender types. Anytime he ever faced a legit threat he turned into a fouling nightmare and needed hometown officiating to pull it off.

Kov is an elite international boxer come up the hard way. He didn’t have to fight Ward for peanuts, but he’s an honorable fighter only wanting to fight the best and willing to sacrifice. The end is recorded history now and puts Ward on the level with Andrew Golota who if you remember was DQed. But not homie Ward who was warned for low blows at least twice.

Twitter account here showing just how farcical the end was. Hope Tony Weeks got a fat brown envelope because his rep as a ref is shot to pieces. Never thought much of him to begin with, but here are two clear claimants
for the Hall of Shame:

]]>Comment on Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward~Oh, Dear, That Time Of The Month Again? by GentlemanJeffhttps://roberto00.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/sergey-kovalev-vs-andre-wardoh-dear-that-time-of-the-month-again/#comment-1727
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 19:03:10 +0000http://roberto00.wordpress.com/?p=9464#comment-1727Fair enough. What did you think of the stoppage? I don’t understand how Lederman had all those rounds for Kovalev, I really don’t, but I don’t think the stoppage was right, and I don’t think those “body shots” were legal. Roy Jones was pretty tough on him.

]]>Comment on Sergey Kovalev vs Andre Ward~Oh, Dear, That Time Of The Month Again? by roberto00https://roberto00.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/sergey-kovalev-vs-andre-wardoh-dear-that-time-of-the-month-again/#comment-1726
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 02:26:54 +0000http://roberto00.wordpress.com/?p=9464#comment-1726— Ward getting $6.5 million purse to Kov’s $zero purse with RocNation not lifting a finger to promote this fight. Kov entitled to extract his pound of flesh for this bout.